Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1

Kolchak: The Night Stalker - Season 1

Season 1

Carl Kolchak was a reporter for Chicago's Independent News Service, and a trouble magnet for situations involving the supernatural. Kolchak turned his investigative skills to vampires, werewolves, zombies and all manner of legendary creatures, but in the end he always failed to convince his skeptical editor, Tony Vincenzo, that the stories weren't products of Kolchak's own overworked imagination.
Network
Episodes20
DatesJan 11, 1972 - Mar 28, 1975

Episodes

The Ripper
Season 1Episode 160 min

The Ripper

A serial killer murders attractive women in the Illinois/Indiana area, and soon comes to Chicago. Kolchak begins to suspect that the killer is not just imitating the 18th century Jack the Ripper, but actually is the seemingly immortal killer.

Sep 13, 1974
The Zombie
Season 1Episode 260 min

The Zombie

Carl investigates a series of brutal murders--someone is breaking mobsters' backs like twigs. All the signs point to Francois Edmonds, a young up-and-comer in the black numbers racket. The trouble is, Francois died a week before the first murder. Soon Carl realizes that someone has brought the young man back from the dead and he is murdering those who murdered him. No one likes a snoop, so soon enough Carl finds himself a target of this killer. The only way he can save his own life is to figure out how to kill a zombie for good.

Sep 20, 1974
They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...
Season 1Episode 360 min

They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...

Invisible aliens stalk Chicago, possessing the strength of a hurricane, an interest in lead and electronic components... and a thirst for bone marrow.

Sep 27, 1974
The Vampire
Season 1Episode 460 min

The Vampire

A victim of Janos Skorzeny, the vampire that Kolchak dispatched in Las Vegas, has risen from a shallow grave and traveled to Los Angeles. Now she is posing as a prostitute and feeding on her clients, and Kolchak comes to town to investigate the killings.

Oct 4, 1974
The Werewolf
Season 1Episode 560 min

The Werewolf

When Tony receives a surprise visit from the New York auditors, he sends Carl in his place to do a story on the last voyage of the ocean liner Hanover. However, a series of vicious deaths soon convince Carl that a werewolf is loose on the ship... and only the captain's silver buttons, melted into buckshot, can stop it.

Nov 1, 1974
Firefall
Season 1Episode 660 min

Firefall

A petty arsonist is killed in a shooting at a penny arcade. However, his fascination with a concert conductor brings him back as an angry spirit--a doppelganger--intent on incinerating anyone who could tell the difference when he takes over the conductor's body.

Nov 8, 1974
The Devil's Platform
Season 1Episode 760 min

The Devil's Platform

A series of mysterious deaths strike individuals tied to both parties in an Illinois senatorial race. Kolchak, intrigued, looks into the deaths and soon discovers that a Satanic hound is tied to each of them.

Nov 15, 1974
Bad Medicine
Season 1Episode 860 min

Bad Medicine

A giant Indian is stealing jewelry and hypnotizing the owners into killing themselves. Kolchak looks into the deaths and discovers that he is facing the spirit of a medicine man who can take the form of a wolf or a crow, and whose only weakness are his own eyes.

Nov 29, 1974
The Spanish Moss Murders
Season 1Episode 960 min

The Spanish Moss Murders

An experiment in dream suppression goes horribly wrong, and the subject manifests a Cajun legend from his childhood--Peremalfait--to kill the people that he hates. Unfortunately, Kolchak becomes the next target when he threatens to unplug the subject.

Dec 6, 1974
The Energy Eater
Season 1Episode 1060 min

The Energy Eater

An Indian deity, Matchemonedo, is brought out of its hibernation beneath Lake Michigan by the construction of a new hospital... and soon begins draining the plasma from its victims.

Dec 13, 1974
Horror in the Heights
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Horror in the Heights

Roosevelt Heights has certainly seen better days. One problem the Jewish neighborhood has experienced lately is a rat infestation, which has led to several fatalities. Another is an elderly Hindu man, drawing swastikas everywhere. These two problems turn out to be connected, and the horrible truth behind the rat attacks nearly costs Carl his life, and forces him to kill the person he trusts the most.

Dec 20, 1974
Mr. R.I.N.G.
Season 1Episode 1260 min

Mr. R.I.N.G.

When threatened with "death", a military-sponsored android escapes its lab and goes on a rampage... or does it?

Jan 10, 1975
Primal Scream
Season 1Episode 1360 min

Primal Scream

An oil company brings back microbe samples from the Antarctic... which thaw into savage primates which go on a rampage through Chicago.

Jan 17, 1975
The Trevi Collection
Season 1Episode 1460 min

The Trevi Collection

Kolchak is contacted by a fashion industrial spy who is thrown to his death, and the reporter soon discovers that a witch is killing and maiming the competition.

Jan 24, 1975
Chopper
Season 1Episode 1560 min

Chopper

A developer moves a cemetery as he prepares to build. But carelessness allows an old evil, once laid to rest, to return again: a motorcyclist with no head, resuming an old agenda of revenge for a prank gone horribly wrong. As usual, Kolchak finds himself in the middle of it, and if he's not careful he may lose his own head.

Jan 31, 1975
Demon in Lace
Season 1Episode 1660 min

Demon in Lace

Several college men drop dead of heart attacks, and Kolchak comes to believe that the killer is a female demon--a succubus--who terrifies her male victims to death.

Feb 7, 1975
Legacy of Terror
Season 1Episode 1760 min

Legacy of Terror

An Aztec ritual spells doom for physically fit victims in Chicago... and Kolchak must stop the last sacrifice before an ancient god is resurrected.

Feb 14, 1975
The Knightly Murders
Season 1Episode 1860 min

The Knightly Murders

The ghost of a misanthropic knight swears vengeance on anyone who desecrates his resting place... and developers plan to turn the museum containing his armor into a disco.

Mar 7, 1975
The Youth Killer
Season 1Episode 1960 min

The Youth Killer

Young members of a computer service start dying... of old age. When Kolchak investigates, he discovers a connection to Greek mythology.

Mar 14, 1975
The Sentry
Season 1Episode 2060 min

The Sentry

A humanoid subterranean lizard creature starts killing workers at a government underground archive, and Kolchak must figure out why while dodging police and government interference.

Mar 28, 1975

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